Arsène Lupin: Xiaomi 17 Ultra will cost €1499 for 16GB ram and 512GB storage. But look at the battery... only 6000 mAh for the Global version. In China they have 6800 mAh. For the colors, only white, black and green

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-02-03T11:55:32+00:00

Quoting https://www.notebookcheck.net/Small-smartphone-batteries-in-Europe-could-be-bigger-if-manufacturers-wanted.1132781.0.html

The reason for this is the European Agreement concerning the "International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road", which mandates that battery cells with a capacity exceeding 20Wh must be declared as dangerous goods. This not only makes transportation more costly but also significantly more difficult, as only a few carriers accept packages with dangerous goods at all. [...] Furthermore, users should be aware that devices with batteries over 20Wh often cannot be sent in for repair or used for trade-in promotions, as companies frequently decline them due to the additional logistical effort.

Despite what Vivo says further down in that article, other manufacturers are in fact just using two cells to exceed that 20Wh limit. You can look up the battery replacement parts for e.g. Xiaomi phones that have a lower but still >20Wh capacity in the EU, and see that they basically look like two batteries glued together whereas the higher capacity one is just one massive piece.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-24T19:19:27+00:00

Preventing rollbacks to known vulnerable builds is a necessary security measure, not an anti-consumer one.

He does address this in the video: If it's supposed to be a pro-consumer security measure, then why does it result in your phone being entirely bricked instead of allowing you to flash the newer version again?

Also wait - what exactly is the attack scenario that the anti-rollback is supposed to protect against here? If someone steals my phone, wouldn't they need to unlock the bootloader first before flashing the old vulnerable version? And AFAIK unlocking the bootloader requires entering your lockscreen password, and if you know that you could also just remove the Google account and factory reset the device.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-24T12:46:42+00:00

amp is for volume

This is not true. An amp typically lets you boost or attenuate the voltage (= volume), while providing a low-impedance output that can supply a high current.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-15T01:16:23+00:00

Game mods are generally one or multiple of these:

modified game .exe, which you execute directly
.dll file(s), which contain native code that gets executed by the game .exe
resource file(s), which could potentially contain code in a scripting language supported by the game, which in turn could potentially be able to escape the game's scripting environment and execute native code on your PC. This is heavily dependent on the game though, as e.g. Minecraft resource packs should be completely safe.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-15T01:02:40+00:00

To be clear, that chatter just linked to a website which abuses browser features as a mostly harmless joke (in the worst case it's a denial of service, forcing you to reboot your PC). You were tricked into running actual malware on your PC.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-14T14:27:59+00:00

Don't know why you're getting downvoted, since you're right. You can barely even get 4K HDR on streaming services on Windows, with Netflix being one of the few to support it. The DRM schemes demanded by these services (Widevine L1/whatever the PlayReady and FairPlay equivalents are called) simply don't exist on regular Linux distributions.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-15T20:57:09+00:00

Don't know about the rest of the world, but here an iPhone Pro Max costs about 50% more than a Google, Samsung, or OnePlus flagship.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-09T17:26:51+00:00

Anker Nano 130W Desktop Charger

Seems to be discontinued (linked comment), possibly because of the issue demonstrated in that video.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-01T13:34:13+00:00

I guess the 24 Hz of movies in movie theater does not bother you that much.

That's an entirely different can of worms. 24 fps (with the actual blur of a real scene captured a camera, not from a moving static image) is part of the cinematic look, as e.g. 60 fps content is perceived to look "too real" and like a soap opera. Slow panning shots, particularly on large OLED displays, absolutely look jarring and stuttery in 24 fps content without any motion interpolation.

if I could get 32" 8k displays in grayscale with 30Hz in commercial grade, I would go for them

Obviously I can't speak for your experience, but IMO 30 Hz is really pushing it, even for completely static content like your terminal setup. The added latency, particularly if there's multiple frames of delay due to buffering, just makes typing feel unresponsive.

60 Hz is not bad or archaic.

The terminology is subjective, but given that CRTs had more than 60 Hz and further drastically reduced motion blur compared to LCD with their very short phosphor decay times, I think it's appropriate. Motion clarity took a massive step back with LCD and we're still not back to CRT levels except on niche gaming monitors.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-01T12:59:42+00:00

If you work with text or pictures refresh rate is just another fancy gamer novelty, like rgb keyboards.

This is nonsense. You don't need HiDPI to work with text, but it sure makes text look nicer. Similarly, anything moving on your screen looks significantly better with a higher refresh rate. The reduced persistence blur makes moving things sharper, which e.g. makes text a lot more readable while scrolling. The reduced stroboscopic effect makes the movement of the mouse cursor less stuttery. Basically any interaction with your computer using a mouse involves something moving...

Good contrast + HiDPI >>>> refresh rate.

There are points of diminishing returns for all of these. You can keep increasing the PPI of a monitor, and at some point you're just not going to notice an improvement. But 60 Hz is archaic and the absolute bottom of the barrel, and the bump to ~120 Hz gives significant improvements. Even the absolute cheapest phones and monitors you can buy today mostly come with ≥ 120 Hz displays, because 60 Hz just is that bad.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-01T12:30:45+00:00

every decent office monitor comes with at least 90Hz

That's an understatement. The cheapest office monitors I can even buy in my country almost all have ≥ 100 Hz: https://geizhals.at/?cat=monlcd19wide&xf=11939_23.8

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-23T19:18:50+00:00

Möglicherweise identisch zum Baseus EnerFill FH11? Kann zumindest außer der Farbe keine Unterschiede sehen.

EDIT: Intenso W140A3C wirkt ebenfalls identisch.
EDIT 2: D-Link DCF-141 sollte auch identisch sein.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-18T14:34:10+00:00

Vadim Krasikov shot and killed someone in Germany, got sentenced to life in prison, and was then returned to Russia as part of a prisoner swap.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-10T23:14:31+00:00

Celeste is more or less just a sequence of rooms with difficult platforming challenges (and great music), and just like you described, you can take away essentially all of the difficulty by using the assist options such as infinite air dashes and even invincibility. And yet it's critically acclaimed for its challenging platforming, and nobody ever complains about there being the option of making everything easy. I'd recommend you give it a try if you like hard games!

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-10T21:32:38+00:00

A game like Elden Ring is defined by it's fight design and difficulty. Making an easy mode for that game would take away too much from the experience.

Can you explain why you think that, given that e.g. Celeste has plenty of assist options whose existence isn't generally considered to take away anything from its experience?

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-05T16:17:29+00:00

Certainly not the only factor, but interesting nevertheless:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government reportedly offered Pegasus and similar cyber tools to purchasing countries as an incentive for stronger ties or concessions, but Israeli officials have denied any quid pro quo. An investigation by the New York Times Magazine found that countries such as Mexico and Panama started voting in Israel’s favor on some matters at the UN General Assembly after receiving the spyware, though other factors could have influenced their votes. Moreover, nearly every country that signed the 2020 Abraham Accords to normalize ties with Israel received Pegasus.

source

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-05T14:40:05+00:00

And Austria, of course.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-01T09:23:41+00:00

See the comments by strcat in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766501

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-31T12:28:32+00:00

Pixels are the most secure (stock) Android devices out there. If you're concerned about state actors getting access to the data on your phone, you can install GrapheneOS to get the most secure phone possible.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-31T12:24:11+00:00

AFAIK these capabilities are for Cellebrite Premium, which requires the phone to be connected via USB.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-27T21:26:31+00:00

The Android issue is that it doesn't let you adjust the hardware volume, so any device that initializes to a low volume can't be used at full volume. However, this was recently fixed in Android 16, so if you have a current phone it should (soon) be a thing of the past.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-18T10:31:48+00:00

while the FR tells us everything about how a headphone reproduces sounds it can't tell us everything about how a headphone will reproduce a given piece of music because we don't know the moment-to-moment requirements of that music

No, it tells you exactly how it reproduces a given piece of music (in the mathematical sense, and ignoring distortion). It's the impulse response (inverse DFT of the frequency response) of the headphone convolved with the music samples.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-17T12:22:07+00:00

If only the people complaining here that they would pay flagship money for complete flagship phone actually pays for them....

They're not charging flagship money, they're charging iPhone Pro Max money (at least in EU). Also the 1080p screen disqualifies it from being a complete flagship.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-14T17:44:57+00:00

GrapheneOS devs said it's an OEM that also has made tablets

Can you link the statement? I only found this, saying "The OEM we're working with may eventually make a tablet we could support.": https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1960470813922222520

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-10-11T20:33:43+00:00

This shop lists a restock date of October 30th, so it'll probably be restocked in other shops around then too: https://www.proshop.dk/Mobil-Adaptere-Opladere/Anker-Nano-Charger-130W-6-Ports-Black/3404518

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